Mill Street Lemon Tea Ale

Brewed by Mill St. Brewery
Style: Fruit Beer
Toronto, Canada

Draught @ C’est What: Pours amber, nice off-white foamy head. Smells exactly like it promises with tea bags and lemon. A bit too carbonated but very refreshing, lots of tea and citrus, bready, just a little bitter. Very nice.

For a beer with this much sweetness it was pretty good with a nice hoppy touch and some decent flavours other the not so overpowering lemon ice tea flavour. Had it on the patio and it did a pretty good job at quenching my thirst while offering a decent flavour as well. An interesting attempt but not one I will be purchasing very often.

[2276-20090613] Tap. Lemon pepper tea aroma has a hint of apricot. Slightly hazy, amber orange body with a medium-lasting foamy off-white head. Some brewed orange pekoe tea flavour with nice lemon citrus hints. Medium body is mildly bitter. Comes together well.
(@ Mill St.; Toronto, ON)

Draft @ C’est What? (Toronto): Poured a hazy light amber with a nice head. The aroma was lemons. The flavor actually tasted like a lemon-tea. It was different, almost non-beer like. It was refreshing too. It was definitely outside the box.

Surprisingly Nestea-like flavors of tea and lemon express well. Nice off-blond color - minimal carbonation - fairly light body make a good summer refresher.

Draught at the brewpub. This is a clear golden amber colour in the glass with no head and very little carbonation. The aroma is fairly faint, with lemon and light tea and then some distant green hops. The flavour is full of lemon leading to lighter tea flavours. Fairly plain.

Draught at C’Est What Spring Festival. Pours a hazy bubbly yellow-amber with a small creamy white head. Decent aroma of lemon, spices, sugary sweetness and tea. Lemony flavour has a soft drink quality to it, like a watery Mountain Dew or Sprite or something -- not bad if you’re looking for that kind of thing. Average bodied. I didn’t love it, it’s fine and well done for what it is though.

2009-06-13. Lightly hazy amber, nice creamy off white head. (3+) Flavour is interesting, touch of peppery spice notes up front, light bitterness, muted lemon and tea, lemon grows, tea becomes more noticed as you go on but it still stays mostly in the background. Aroma is lightly lemony with a touch of mild lemon and tea. Lemon grows and develops as the glass warms up more. Average plus palate. Okay, kind of refreshing. Definitely leaves a bit of an iced tea impression. I would drink it again but would not likely buy it again. On tap, at Mill St, Toronto